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...cliches. Salamo Arouch (Willem Dafoe), formerly the Balkan middleweight champ, is interned with his family at Birkenau and soon ordered to take part in boxing exhibitions in which the loser will almost certainly be killed. This grisly dilemma -- each of Arouch's knockouts sends his opponent to the gas chamber -- is mostly evaded in Robert M. Young's bland direction. The film's only and considerable virtue lies in its documentation of the desperate strategies people devised to stay alive in the death camps...
...Panamanian civilians died (unofficial estimates go as high as 800), an alarming toll. Many Panamanians criticized the failure of the Americans to move against the looting that engulfed Panama City. "There should have been troops placed along commercial arteries," complained Steve Maduro, a past director of Panama's Chamber of Commerce. "Our police force was nonexistent, and it was utter chaos for three days...
...will not deceive you about the magnitude of the problems before us," Weld told the crowd assembled in the state House of Representatives chamber for the event. "But neither will I conceal my faith in our ability to resolve those problems...
...While I promise no miracles, I can undertake to avoid past mistakes. Things are not good in the Common-wealth in this first week of 1991. But things will get better," Weld said as the chamber broke into applause. "Together we will see to that...
Weld then entered the House chamber, where hewas sworn in before a joint meeting of the Houseand Senate, along with Cellucci and the members ofthe Governor's Council